Colonel Staff Colonel Gharib Abdel Hafez, the military spokesman for the Egyptian Army, confirmed that within the framework of following up on the results of the ongoing investigations by the competent committee in the two accidents of a foreign object falling in Nuweiba and a piloted drone in Taba, and by analyzing and gathering information, the results of the investigations resulted in the number of (2) aircraft being destroyed. A drone was heading from the south of the Red Sea to the north.

He added: One of them was targeted outside Egyptian airspace in the Gulf of Aqaba region, which resulted in some of its debris falling in an uninhabited area in Nuweiba... in addition to the other falling in Taba.

Israel said this evening that the suicide marches that targeted Egypt were launched by the Houthis with the intention of targeting Israeli cities.

One of the planes crashed in the Egyptian city of Taba, causing no casualties.

Al Jazeera also said, through its correspondent, that bomb drones and missiles believed to be Houthi targets targeted an Israeli army military site in Eritrea on the banks of the Red Sea, and destroyed a ship control center.